Fiction
Seeing with eyes not yet our own.
What will tomorrow bring? What's over the next hill?
The future has always been uncertain, but rarely has it been so strange. Perhaps it's time then to do what we've always done in times like these — to tell ourselves stories about what tomorrow might bring, so that when we do finally reach those days to come, they won't feel so unfamiliar.
With good will, good fortune, and perhaps a few maps — we may even find a way to make a future worth living in.
That's my hope, at least.
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Stone and Crane
Long years have passed since humans first learned to spark mind in sand. Some of the times that followed were full of wonder, others burned with fury.
Today… things simply are.
Stone and Crane is an attempt to feel out the corners of a companion species ethos, and how it might unfold for human lives yet to come. How do we make peace with a world full of minds at once stronger and stranger than human? How do we find our purpose when so much of what we thought of as human is not ours alone?
Three souls — a human girl, a centuries-old companion mind, and a family dog — make their way together across the far-future Pacific Northwest, each crafting their own path in a world yet to be born.
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